Category: Weekly Reads

• Matt’s Weekly Reads, March 11, 2023

  

  Spotlight: Fifth Business || Weekly Roundup: Dubliners, Late Nights on Air, Well Traveled, The Long Run, Chef’s Kiss, Autobiography of Red, Little House in the Big Woods

  stufffromthestuff

  March 11, 2023

  Weekly Reads

  Autobiography of Red, Canadian Literature, Chef’s Kiss, Depth Psychology, Dubliners, Fifth Business, Hagiography, Late Nights on Air, Little House in the Big Woods, Magic and Illusion, The Long Run, Twentieth Century History, Well Traveled

• Matt’s Weekly Reads, March 4, 2023

  

  Spotlight Beartown (Beartown 1) Fredrik Backman (2016, trans. 2017) Beartown is a remote village in Sweden with a depressed economy and even more depressed spirit among its strong and hard, tight-lipped and stoic residents. The community can be forgiven, then, if it cares a little too much about its youth hockey team — which finally…

  stufffromthestuff

  March 4, 2023

  Weekly Reads

  Athletics and Sports, Beartown, Belonging, Hockey, Hollow, Holly Jolly Diwali, Loyalty, small towns, Something Wilder, Sweden, The Penderwicks, The Pursuit of Love, The Thirty-Nine Steps, Tuck Everlasting

• Matt’s Weekly Reads, February 25, 2023

  

  Spotlight: The Woman Next Door || Weekly Roundup: All the Way Happy, Zorrie, The Catcher in the Rye, The Fall, You & I Rewritten, Better than Fiction, Hatchet

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  February 25, 2023

  Weekly Reads

  Aging, All the Way Happy, Better than Fiction, Curmudgeons, Hatchet, Mature Protagonists, Race Relations, Social Change, South Africa, The Catcher in the Rye, The Fall, The Woman Next Door, You & I Rewritten, Zorrie

• Matt’s Weekly Reads, February 18, 2023

  

  Spotlight: How High We Go in the Dark || Weekly Roundup: When You Reach Me, The Call of the Wild, Punch Me Up to the Gods, When We Were Very Young, Because of Winn-Dixie, Big Kids, Bear

  stufffromthestuff

  February 18, 2023

  Weekly Reads

  Bear, Because of Winn-Dixie, Big Kids, climate change, Dystopias, Family, grief and loss, How High We Go in the Dark, pandemic literature, Punch Me Up to the Gods, science fiction, The Call of the Wild, When We Were Very Young, When You Reach Me

• Matt’s Weekly Reads, February 11, 2023

  

  Spotlight: Fraternity || Weekly Roundup: The Locked Room, Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde, The Lost Stories, On the Road, Decolonizing Design, Winnie-the-Pooh, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Mooncop, A Dangerous Business

  stufffromthestuff

  February 11, 2023

  Weekly Reads

  1990s, A Dangerous Business, Bisexual Representation, Dark Academia, Decolonizing Design, Fraternity, Identity, lgbtq2s+, Magic, Mooncop, On the Road, Paranormal, Secret Societies, Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, The Locked Room, The Lost Stories, Winnie-the-Pooh

• Matt’s Weekly Reads, February 4, 2023

  

  Spotlight: Babel || Weekly Roundup: Oryx & Crake; Ghosts; Ziggy, Stardust & Me; The Giver; Harriet the Spy; Love and Other Words; The Magic Fish

  stufffromthestuff

  February 4, 2023

  Weekly Reads

  19th Century History, Babel, Colonialism, Ghosts, Harriet the Spy, Historical Linguistics, Language, Love and Other Words, Oryx & Crake, The Giver, The Magic Fish, Translation, Ziggy Stardust & Me

• Matt’s Weekly Reads, January 28, 2023

  

  Spotlight: The New Life || Weekly Roundup: Thank You for Listening; Foster; Mrs. Dalloway; Luisa, Now and Then; Small Town, Big Magic; Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH;The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; City of Glass

  stufffromthestuff

  January 28, 2023

  Uncategorized, Weekly Reads

  academic freedom, city of glass, Complicated Families, foster, lgbtq2s+, luisa now and then, mrs dalloway, mrs frisby and the rats of nimh, scientific progress, taboos, thank you for listening, the new life, the wonderful wizard of oz, trailblazers, Victorian England

• Matt’s Weekly Reads, January 7, 2023

  

  # Matt’s Weekly Reads, January 7, 2023 (10) Spotlight: Everything Sad is Untrue || Weekly Roundup: Surrender, Young Mungo, Even Though I Knew the End, Down and Out in Paris and London, Anne of West Philly, Simply Clean, Are You Listening?, Foxhunt

  stufffromthestuff

  January 7, 2023

  Weekly Reads

  Anne of West Philly, Are You Listening?, Down and Out in Paris and London, Even Though I Knew the End, Everything Sad is Untrue, Foxhunt, immigration, Iranian history, Persian culture, refugees, Simply Clean, Surrender, Young Mungo

• Matt’s Weekly Reads, December 23, 2022

  

  Spotlight: Sea of Tranquility || Weekly Roundup: Amari and the Great Game, Moby-Dick, Holes, Rizzio, The Emperor of Nihon-Ja, Blue in Green, The Christmas Bookshop

  stufffromthestuff

  December 23, 2022

  Weekly Reads

  Amari and the Great Game, Blue in Green, Colonization, Holes, Moby-Dick, pandemic literature, Rizzio, science fiction, Sea of Tranquility, speculative fiction, The Christmas Bookshop, The Emperor of Nihon-Ja, time travel

• Matt’s Weekly Reads, December 17, 2022

  

  # Matt’s Weekly Reads, December 17, 2022 (8) Spotlight: Small Things like These || Weekly Roundup: The 99 Boyfriends of Micah Summers, The Cloisters, Daddy-Long-Legs, The Story of Arthur Truluv, Come, Thief, The Blue Castle, The Gentleman’s Guide to Getting Lucky

  stufffromthestuff

  December 17, 2022

  Weekly Reads

  Come, Daddy-Long-Legs, Empathy, Irish History, Small Things like These, Social Issues, Systemic failures, The 99 Boyfriends of Micah Summers, The Blue Castle, The Cloisters, The Gentleman’s Guide to Getting Lucky, The Story of Arthur Truluv, Thief